Attacks involved the use of Rich Communication Services messages indicating false payments.
More than 2,000 phishing websites have utilized a phishing kit dubbed "Xiū gǒu" to facilitate scams concerning government payments, postal services, and motorists against users globally.
According to Hackread, the scams have been targeted against users in the U.S., Australia, Japan, Spain, and the UK since September.
Attacks involved the use of Rich Communication Services messages indicating false payments that included links redirecting to websites spoofing government agencies, postal services, and banking entities.
According to a report by Netcraft, inputted personal and payment information is exfiltrated by threat actors leveraging the phishing kit, which conceals malicious activity through the anti-bot and hosting obfuscation features of Cloudflare.
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He has spoken at events including 44CON, Infosecurity Europe, RANT Forum, BSides Scotland, Steelcon and the National Cyber Security Show, and served as editor of SC Media UK, Infosecurity Magazine and IT Security Guru. He was also an analyst with 451 Research and a product marketing lead at Tenable.
